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Somalia banknotes
Somalia paper money catalog and Somalian currency history

• A brief monetary history:
  • Somaliland Rupia = 100 Bese, till 1925
  • Italian currency, 1925-1936
  • Italian East Africa currency, 1936-1942
  • East African Shilling = (24 Italian East African Lira), 1942-1950
  • Somali = Lira = 100 Centisimi, 1950-1960
  • Somali Shilling = (Shilling = Scelino) = 100 Cents, from 1960

• For earlier issues see:
  • British Somaliland, until 1960 (part of British East Africa)
  • Italian Somaliland, until 1960
• For later issues of seceded Somaliland (former British Somaliland) see:
  • Somaliland, from 1991

• To purchase Somalian banknotes, please check our inventory :
  World banknotes countries A-Z

Pick #	Date
		Republic, from 1960 (independent -united former British and Italian Somaliland)
1-4	1962	5, 10, 20, 100 shillings
5-8	1966	5, 10, 20, 100 shillings
9-12	1968	5, 10, 20, 100 shillings
13-16	1971	5, 10, 20, 100 shillings
17-20	1975	5, 10, 20, 100 shillings
20A-24	1978	5, 5, 10, 20, 100 shillings
26-28	1980	10, 20, 100 shillings
29-30	1981	20, 100 shillings
31-35	1983-89	5, 10, 20, 50, 100 shillings
36-37	1989-96	500, 1.000 shillings

		Mogadishu Northern Forces
R1-2	1991	20, 50 shillings
		Puntland Region
R10	1990(1999)	1.000 shillings (lithographed copy of #37a)